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Emerson Process Management has formed a strategic
relationship with Secure Energy, Inc. to help build an $800 million alternative
energy plant in Decatur, IL, the first coal gasification-to-synthetic natural
gas plant to be constructed in the United States in two decades.

According to this strategic relationship, Emerson will serve
as the main automation contractor responsible for managing and digitally
automating the Secure Energy plant that will convert 1.4 million tons/year of
Illinois coal into 21 billion cubic feet of pipeline quality natural gas. The
modular facility is a template for four additional clean coal plants that
Secure Energy intends to construct in other parts of the United States. Emerson
will establish automation and process control protocols that can be modified as
necessary to create plants that are coal-to-diesel, coal-to-gasoline,
coal-to-fertilizer or other clean coal processes. More…